Abstract
The recent surge of interest in science and religion has yielded a rich harvest of books. The reviews in this issue attest to the quality and diversity of these offerings. Here are some examples. John Brooke and Geoffrey Cantor's Reconstructing Nature: The Engagement of Science and Religion (1998, The 1995-96 Gifford Lectures) uses engagement to show how new ways of understanding the science of the past can suggest fresh approaches to the current situation. Eschewing any master narrative the authors offer a wide-ranging set of historical characters to illustrate the "interesting, unpredictable and extraordinarily diverse ways" that engagement occurs.